England’’s Asian Renaissance

SU FANG NG is a professor of English and the Clifford A. Cutchins III professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. She is the author of Literature and the Politics of Family in Seventeenth-Century England, as well as articles on medieval, early modern, and postcolonial topics. She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the National Humanities Center, the University of Texas at Austin, Heidelberg University, All Souls College, Oxford, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her most recent book is Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance, which was awarded the Renaissance Society of America’s 2020 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize for best book in Renaissance Studies.

CARMEN NOCENTELLI is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She is the author of Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity, which won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize in Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association and the Roland H. Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. The recipient of several awards including two NEH Fellowships and a Fulbright Scholarship, she has published in PMLA, Modern Language Quarterly, JEMCS, and several edited collections.